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Vernon God Little
Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker wkkk.net memorable portrait of America is seen through the eyes of a wry, young, protagonist. Fifteen-year-old Vernon narrates the story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his townsfolk, a medley of characters. With a plot involving a school shooting and death-row reality TV shows, Pierre's effortless prose and dialogue combine to form a novel of postmodern gamesmanship.Camp Pleasant
This short novel that is told with almost fable-like simplicity: Matt Harper is a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp when he witnesses a casual brutality that leads to murder. The bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who has "reduced Camp Pleasant to a microcosm of the Third Reich") is portrayed as one stereotype that the reader is not sorry to see killed off. Instead, all of our sympathy is reserved for the possible suspects: Merv Loomis, the homosexual counselor Nolan humiliates into quitting; the troubled ten-year-old Tony Rocca; Nolan's meek wife, Ellen; and several others. The setting and tone have the distinct feel of the early 1950s, but a casual reference to actress Catherine Deneuve places the action in the mid-60s or later.Spire
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in wkkk.net the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.'A superb tragedy … the book should become a classic.' Sunday Telegraph'A marvel.' Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books.
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他们本是现代社会的顶级杀手,金牌搭档,却因缘际会错杀了对方。什么?就算死了也还能穿越到古代去?居然还能做皇帝?那好吧,这样子的选择我喜欢。可是为毛醒来之后,他竟然变成了一个又胖又傻的傀儡皇帝?你这样还算好了行不行?总比人家一醒来就变成了傻皇帝的保镖要好吧?当帅哥变成胖大叔,当美女变成小萝莉,今生今世他们可否还能联手缔造新的传奇?当他终于狠下心来,将她强行扑倒之际,却发现腰间正抵着一把匕首。这个,是你欠我的!他气极败坏地说。不管是前世,还是今生,我所欠你的,不过一条性命而已。从此以后,你的安全保障就全权交给本姑娘就是了。不过,请不要挑衅我的爱情,我怕你会承受不起!他面色僵硬,却不无讨好,前世的恩怨是可以放下的,今生的感情是可以培养的,还有你手上的这把刀,我看也是可以扔掉的。真的要扔掉?她笑的十分得意,那剌客来了怎么办?有剌客——爱妃,来救驾~~